Haskell County, Oklahoma

61 topographic sheets and 16 fire insurance atlases across 5 places.

Research this county

From the record

9 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Oklahoma within the United States

Haskell County within Oklahoma

What the record shows

5 places in this county were surveyed for fire insurance: Stigler, Enterprise, Whitefield, Keota, Mccurtain, between 1899 and 1941.
16 fire insurance atlases survive for the county. Topographic coverage is national; fire insurance survey reached only incorporated places with something worth insuring.
280 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
9 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 8 buildings and 1 structure.
1 of the 9 listings was added during the 1970s.
The Geographic Names Information System records 19 populated places in this county; 19 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Property	Type	Listed	Reference
Cotton Storage House	structure	1980	80003263
Haskell County Courthouse	building	1984	84003061
Kinta High School	building	1988	88001383
Edmund McCurtain House	building	1980	80003265
Green McCurtain House	building	1971	71000661
Scott Store	building	1980	80003264
Stigler School Gymnasium-Auditorium	building	1988	88001384
Tamaha Jail and Ferry Landing	building	1980	80003266
Tamaha Jail and Ferry Landing	building	1980	80003266

The county from the air

33 shown

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 836 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 33 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1958-04-12, scale 1:17000 — 1958-04-12, scale 1:17000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1963-04-07, scale 1:18000 — 1963-04-07, scale 1:18000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1965-02-19, scale 1:20000 — 1965-02-19, scale 1:20000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1966-04-01, scale 1:22000 — 1966-04-01, scale 1:22000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1970-03-14, scale 1:46000 — 1970-03-14, scale 1:46000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-03-08, scale 1:74000 — 1971-03-08, scale 1:74000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-12-22, scale 1:80000 — 1972-12-22, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1976-03-21, scale 1:80000 — 1976-03-21, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1977-03-20, scale 1:80000 — 1977-03-20, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

6 stations, 3 gages

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

TAMAHA 1916 to 1923
STIGLER 1 SE 1938 to 1951
LEQUIRE 1943 to 1947
MC CURTAIN 1 SE 1948 to 2009, hottest 43.9 C, coldest -22.8 C
EUFAULA RSVR 1965 to 1970, hottest 40.6 C, coldest -16.7 C
LAKE EUFAULA 1970 to 2004, hottest 46.1 C, coldest -22.2 C

Canadian River near Whitefield, OK 1938 to 2026
Sans Bois Creek near Keota, OK 1938 to 1942
Taloka Creek near Stigler, OK 1978 to 1981

The 1950 census, district by district

21 districts

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

31-1Beaver township: Beaver township - That part north and east of State Highway 31, outside Kinta town
31-2Beaver township - That part south and west of State Highway 31, outside Kinta town
31-3Brooken township
31-4Center township: Center township - That part north of State Highway 9, outside Stigler city
31-5Center township - That part south of State Highway 9, outside Stigler city
31-6Diamond township: Diamond township - That part north and northwest of State Highway 31, outside McCurtain town
31-7Diamond township - That part south and southeast of State Highway 31, outside McCurtain town
31-8Keota town
31-9Kinta town
31-10Liberty township - Outside Tamaha town
31-11McCurtain town
31-12Machire township: Machire township - That part east of State Highway 2
31-13Machire township - That part west of State Highway 2
31-14Sans Bois township: Sans Bois township - That part north of State Highway 9 and east of Sansbois Creek, outside Keota town
31-15Sans Bois township - That part west of State Highway 26, south of State Highway 9 and west of Sansbois Creek
31-16Sans Bois township - That part east of State Highway 26 and south of State Highway 9, outside Keota town
31-17Stigler city: Stigler city - That part Bounded by City limits; City limits; Main; 4th
31-18Stigler city - That part Bounded by City limits; 4th, Main, City limits; City limits; Cooper Ave.
31-19Stigler city - That part Bounded by City limits; Cooper Ave.; City limits; City limits
31-20Taloka township
31-21Tamaha town

Wildfire, 1992 to 2020

937 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 937 of them, burning about 54,237 acres. 32 started naturally and 360 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	360
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	304
Debris and open burning	160
Equipment and vehicle use	46
Natural	32
Recreation and ceremony	12
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	6

The five largest, by the area the report gives. Five of them were set deliberately.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
31 January 2017	Arson/incendiarism	5,240 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
4 March 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1,200 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20043
17 February 2014	Arson/incendiarism	1,116 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,100 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
27 March 2013	Debris and open burning	1,000 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	MCCURTAIN 3722
8 February 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1,000 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
1 March 2020	Arson/incendiarism	989 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	BROOKEN MOUNTAIN
12 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	950 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	LONE STAR

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1954 to 2025

60 of 445 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 445 reports for this county, causing 3 deaths, 9 injuries and about $5,579,900 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event	Reports
Hail	201
Thunderstorm Wind	164
Flash Flood	39
Tornado	33
Flood	5
Funnel Cloud	3

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1960	Tornado (F4)	not stated	3 killed, 6 hurt, $2,500,000	no account filed
April 1957	Tornado (F2)	not stated	2 hurt, $25,000	no account filed
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Stigler	1 hurt, $30,000	A F0 tornado touched down just north of Stigler and traveled two miles east northeast before dissipating.One mobile home was destroyed and several trees were damaged. The person who was in the mobile home was injured.
April 2017	Flash Flood	Kinta	$500,000	Approximately 40 structures were damaged by flood waters. Numerous roads were flooded in town.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Stigler	$500,000	Thunderstorm winds severely damaged the Cookson Hills Electric Cooperative building and the Alumbaugh Health Clinic. Three doors on the Haskell County district county barn were damaged as were four bay doors at the Speedy Lube business. The building housing the Stigler livestock auction was also damaged as was the press box at the high school football stadium. Several homes also likely received garage door and roof damage.
October 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitefield	$350,000	no account filed
March 1982	Tornado (F1)	not stated	$250,000	no account filed
May 2003	Tornado (F1)	Cartersville	$150,000	A F1 tornado touched down about a mile west southwest of Cartersville and traveled east producing extensive damage to 4 homes and destroying several outbuildings. The tornado continued moving east crossed over into Le Flore county before dissipating 2.8 miles north northwest of Bokeshe.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mc Curtain	$100,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour damaged outbuildings and blew down power lines.The winds damaged several homes as well.
April 2001	Tornado (F1)	Stigler	$100,000	A F1 tornado touched down 4 miles north of Stigler and traveled 3 miles before it lifted 5 miles southwest of Tamaha. A roof of a house and a porch were tore off and six barns were destroyed. In addition numerous trees were damaged and several power lines were blown down. Winds associated with the parent storm of this tornado gusted to 91 miles an hour at the mesonet site 3 miles northwest of Stigler.
November 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lequire	$75,000	A single family home was damaged by thunderstorm winds. Several outbuildings and trailers were also severely damaged by the wind.
June 1998	Tornado (F2)	Kinta	$60,000	An F2 tornado destroyed one single family dwelling, while another single family dwelling received major damage.
November 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Lewisville	$50,000	This tornado destroyed a mobile home, snapped wooden utility poles, damaged the roofs of a couple homes, and snapped large tree limbs as it moved northeast. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Stigler	$50,000	Numerous streets were flooded and subsequently closed. Flood water rose into a few homes.
April 2011	Flash Flood	Whitefield	$50,000	Portions of Highways 82 and 31 were flooded, as were a number of county roads, resulting in closures. Numerous vehicles were stranded in the flood water.
September 2010	Flash Flood	Enterprise	$50,000	The Haskell County Sheriff's Office reported Highway 71 between Enterprise and Quinton closed due to high water. Some county roads were washed out.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lequire	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew down power poles and destroyed outbuildings and barns.
April 2008	Hail	Kinta	$50,000	Baseball size hail damaged homes and automobiles.
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitefield	$50,000	Severe thunderstorms redeveloped in eastern Oklahoma during the early morning of November 4th. Several barn roofs were damaged and large tree limbs were downed by strong thunderstorm winds just west of Whitefield, and a large tree limb was downed 5 miles south of Broken Arrow. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 miles an hour 7 miles southwest of Skiatook, 2 miles northwest of Coweta, and at Featherston. Quarter size hail fell at the intersection of 51st Street South and Yale Avenue in the city of Tulsa.
June 2007	Hail	Mc Curtain	$50,000	no account filed
May 1999	Tornado (F0)	Mc Curtain	$44,000	An F0 tornado touched down 2 miles southwest of McCurtain and tracked to south of Keota. Along the way, the tornado heavily damaged several barns, knocked down numerous power lines, and uprooted numerous trees. The McCurtain area was especially hard-hit with numerous downed trees that blocked several roadways.
May 2022	Hail	Keota	$30,000	Golf ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Keota	$30,000	A large tree fell onto a house, significantly damaging the structure.
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Kinta	$30,000	A tornado damaged two barns, uprooted a tree, and damaged a home on the east side of town.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Stigler	$25,000	An Oklahoma mesonet site near Stigler recorded a 74 mile an hour wind gust. The strong wind damaged outbuildings, removed large sections of metal roofing from structures, and damaged signs.
June 2009	Hail	Enterprise	$25,000	no account filed
November 1988	Tornado (F0)	not stated	$25,000	no account filed
June 1986	Tornado (F0)	not stated	$25,000	no account filed
November 2004	Flash Flood	Countywide	$20,000	Heavy thunderstorm rains caused minor washouts of a few county roads across Haskell County.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Stigler	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged three houses.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Keota	$20,000	Four to six inches of rain caused several roads and low water bridges to be washed out.
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Stigler	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down an outbuilding. A travel trailer was also blown over.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Enterprise	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew over several sheds.
March 2012	Hail	Whitefield	$15,000	no account filed
December 2015	Flood	Enterprise	$10,000	Portions of Highway 71 were reduced to one lane between Enterprise and Quinton for repairs to drainage structures that were damaged from extensive flooding.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Mc Curtain	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roof of a home, blew down trees, and moved a mobile home 2 feet.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Keota	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour damage house.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide	$10,000	Widespread wind damage was reported throughout Haskell County with trees and power lines blow down. The event was timed as the leading edge of a bow echo moved into the county.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Keota	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew trees down and damage the roofs of several homes.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Stigler	$10,000	Strong winds blew the window out of a downtown Stigler business. A downtown building had the tin ripped off of its roof. A tree fell over onto a mobile home, trapping its occupant. Power poles and several other small trees were blown over in Stigler.
March 2019	Hail	Stigler	$10,000	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Lequire	$10,000	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Stigler	$10,000	no account filed
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Keota	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs and damaged the roofs of homes.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Keota	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roof of a home and snapped many large tree limbs.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Keota	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew the roof off a barn and blew down several trees.
February 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Enterprise	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew sheet metal off a building.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitefield	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and destroyed a few outbuildings.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Kinta	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour damaged outbuildings.
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Enterprise	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour damage the roof and dock of a marina.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Stigler	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 75 miles an hour blew trees down and ripped shingles from the roofs of some homes.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Enterprise	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour damaged a dock at Evergreen Marina.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Stigler	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and tree limbs. one tree limb damaged a roof.
October 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Lequire	$5,000	An isolated severe thunderstorm during the early morning hours of the 2nd produced strong winds which blew siding off the side of a house 1.5 miles east of Lequire.
June 2018	Hail	Hughart	$5,000	no account filed
March 2015	Hail	Brooken	$5,000	no account filed
May 2001	Tornado (F0)	Stigler	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds produced thousands of dollars of damage in the city of Stigler. The pattern of the damage and spotter reports also indicated that a tornado briefly touched down just southwest of the city of Stigler.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Keota	$3,000	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide	$3,000	no account filed
May 1986	Tornado (F0)	not stated	$2,500	no account filed

Mines and quarries

15 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 15 workings inside this county. 2 still produce and 13 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity	Workings
Clay	6
Sand and Gravel, Construction	5
Flagstone	2
Pumice, Bentonite	1
Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction	1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Bentonite Pit	Pumice, Bentonite	Past Producer
Unknown Shale & Sandstone Pit	Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hensley Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
L B Barbee Sandstone Pit	Flagstone	Producer
H D Youngman Contr San & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sandstone & Shale Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sandstone & Shale Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sandstone & Shale Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Silt Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Producer

Every populated place in the county

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 5 places that were also surveyed for fire insurance come first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.

Enterprise

West Haskell census division · 74561 · Near Brooken Mountain · Enterprise quadrangle

14 sheets, 1900 to 1978

Fire insurance: 4 atlases
Keota

Keota census division · 74941 · On Elm Branch · Keota quadrangle

14 sheets, 1900 to 1978

Fire insurance: 2 atlases
Stigler

Stigler census division · 74462 · Stigler East quadrangle

14 sheets, 1900 to 1978

Fire insurance: 5 atlases
Whitefield

West Haskell census division · 74472 · On Emachaya Creek · Stigler West quadrangle

15 sheets, 1900 to 1978

Fire insurance: 3 atlases
Cartersville

Keota census division · 74941 · Bokoshe quadrangle

16 sheets, 1900 to 1978
Garland

Stigler census division · 74462 · On Cedarburg Creek · Stigler East quadrangle

14 sheets, 1900 to 1978
Hoyt

West Haskell census division · 74472 · Porum quadrangle

14 sheets, 1900 to 1978
Hughart

West Haskell census division · 74462 · Near Little Knob · Quinton North quadrangle

15 sheets, 1900 to 1978
Ironbridge

Keota census division · 74941 · McCurtain quadrangle

15 sheets, 1900 to 1978
Kinta

West Haskell census division · 74552 · On Beaver Creek · Kinta quadrangle

15 sheets, 1900 to 1978
Lafayette

McCurtain census division · 74462 · Lafayette quadrangle

14 sheets, 1900 to 1978
Lequire

McCurtain census division · 74944 · On Andrew Creek · Lequire quadrangle

15 sheets, 1900 to 1978
Lewisville

West Haskell census division · 74552 · Quinton South quadrangle

17 sheets, 1900 to 1978
McCurtain

McCurtain census division · 74944 · McCurtain quadrangle

15 sheets, 1900 to 1978
Panther

McCurtain census division · 74944 · McCurtain quadrangle

15 sheets, 1900 to 1978
Red Hill

Keota census division · 74941 · On Red Hill · Keota quadrangle

14 sheets, 1900 to 1978
Sans Bois

West Haskell census division · 74552 · On Mountain Fork · Sans Bois quadrangle

13 sheets, 1900 to 1978
Star

Keota census division · 74941 · Robert S Kerr Dam quadrangle

15 sheets, 1900 to 1978
Tamaha

Stigler census division · 74462 · Vian quadrangle

16 sheets, 1900 to 1978

Recorded here

Stigler, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets and 5 fire insurance atlases, 1904 to 1941

Enterprise, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets and 4 fire insurance atlases, 1899 to 1904

Whitefield, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets and 3 fire insurance atlases, 1899 to 1904

Keota, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets and 2 fire insurance atlases, 1925

Mccurtain, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets and 2 fire insurance atlases, 1926

Provenance

Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.